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willness33 said:
Best video I've seen in a while. I want the powder to play with.
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You must not have heard the cost.

There are other powders that cost less and are a wilder time
 
They said by the ounce it costs most than gold.

Now that might be the finished product due to mfr costs
 
I am more interested that this is a thing than the actual thing
www.thrillist.com

How to catch, kill, and cook cicadas

If you haven’t heard, the East Coast is about to be overrun by alien creatures who’ve been buried in the ground, hibernating for the last 17 years. But wait -- did you know that you can actually eat these suckers?
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RatLabGuy said:
There are other powders that cost less and are a wilder time
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3 days straight was no big feat to get by with no food or sleep.....
 
That was a long article just to say that people use the word interesting too often and that it leads to lazy writing. Like the word very

www.thewritingpiazza.com

Stop Using the Word 'Very' Immediately

Why you need to stop using the word 'very' immediately. This article includes a list of suggestions for other words you can use instead.
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prowritingaid.com

Why shouldn't you use the word "very" in your writing?

Avoid using "very" in a sentence because it's a weak word that diminishes your meaning. Here's what to do instead.
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writerscircle.com

“Very” and Other Useless Words to Erase Forever

There is a ''very good'' reason that you ''really'' need to read this list!
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I find all this very uninteresting.
 
I could write a whole ton about why this is really cool and neat to see from a technical standpoint, but not at all interesting or groundbreaking from a scientific view... but for now I'll just enjoy my beer and pas it along
 
ok so monkeys playing games w/ their brains wasn't enough... how about DYI chainsaw robot arm?
 
RatLabGuy said:
ok so monkeys playing games w/ their brains wasn't enough... how about DYI chainsaw robot arm?
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This guy is one of my new recent favorites. We've been working through his back catalog over the last few weeks.

Also, Jeremy Fielding finally has a new video out. He's been building an articulated arm:

 
Y'all promise me there will be discussion about the ramifications of this after booze this weekend
astronomy.com

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping?

It's been 780,000 years since this happened — and some scientists say that Earth's magnetic poles are long overdue for a switch.
astronomy.com astronomy.com
 
RatLabGuy said:
Y'all promise me there will be discussion about the ramifications of this after booze this weekend
astronomy.com

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping?

It's been 780,000 years since this happened — and some scientists say that Earth's magnetic poles are long overdue for a switch.
astronomy.com astronomy.com
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Had a few discussions concerning this in several of my Physics classes in school. At first, most students reactions were the proverbial OMG's and the like. But then after some discussion, beyond the potential firestorm that satellites might be under during the physical switch, the change would be so simple (speculating, of course) as re-calibrating the navigation of satellites....now, I have no clue as to what is involved in the calibration/programming of satellites/GPS, but the ones I wonder about are those that still use the ol' skool map and compass. Perhaps everything these days is GPS, but "back in my day," the day and night land nav courses at the MCRD and SOI were pass/fail. "Pass" was for those who hit all of their dozen plus target coordinates and made it back...."Fail" was for those that missed one, was out for hours beyond the deadline to return, or perhaps had to go get searched for. :laughing: There wasn't any option for "well, you tried. Have a cookie."

As for wildlife that uses the magnetic field for navigation....they're pretty much forked until they figure out that they're lost/bassackwards. Which really sucks for them.
 
Scooter402 said:
Had a few discussions concerning this in several of my Physics classes in school. At first, most students reactions were the proverbial OMG's and the like. But then after some discussion, beyond the potential firestorm that satellites might be under during the physical switch, the change would be so simple (speculating, of course) as re-calibrating the navigation of satellites....now, I have no clue as to what is involved in the calibration/programming of satellites/GPS, but the ones I wonder about are those that still use the ol' skool map and compass. Perhaps everything these days is GPS, but "back in my day," the day and night land nav courses at the MCRD and SOI were pass/fail. "Pass" was for those who hit all of their dozen plus target coordinates and made it back...."Fail" was for those that missed one, was out for hours beyond the deadline to return, or perhaps had to go get searched for. :laughing: There wasn't any option for "well, you tried. Have a cookie."

As for wildlife that uses the magnetic field for navigation....they're pretty much forked until they figure out that they're lost/bassackwards. Which really sucks for them.
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Just repaint all the compass needles and we're good to go!
 
RatLabGuy said:
Y'all promise me there will be discussion about the ramifications of this after booze this weekend
astronomy.com

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping?

It's been 780,000 years since this happened — and some scientists say that Earth's magnetic poles are long overdue for a switch.
astronomy.com astronomy.com
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I'm ready to see auroras in the south while its mid shift.

And we will have to dress like this ..
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willness33 said:
I'm ready to see auroras in the south while its mid shift.
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The thing I'm most curious about is the process and timescale. People make it sound it will be a snap of the fingers POW kind of thing, but I'm not so sure. I'm not a geomagetothermologist but if the poles are created from the electrical flux in all that iron, and the shift is from the iron moving around, in such a large scale wouldn't it at least take days? Or longer? "sudden" in geological terms which are usually thousands of years as a small tick on the scale could be like a year, right?
If so imagine what THAT would be like for us.
 
RatLabGuy said:
The thing I'm most curious about is the process and timescale. People make it sound it will be a snap of the fingers POW kind of thing, but I'm not so sure. I'm not a geomagetothermologist but if the poles are created from the electrical flux in all that iron, and the shift is from the iron moving around, in such a large scale wouldn't it at least take days? Or longer? "sudden" in geological terms which are usually thousands of years as a small tick on the scale could be like a year, right?
If so imagine what THAT would be like for us.
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Everything I've read or watched on the topic says it won't be an instant snap. Instant in the grand scheme, but in all actuality it will likely be years.
 
It'll take a few wobbles of our axis to get the flip completed I'd imagine so that equates to years in my mind.
 
willness33 said:
Everything I've read or watched on the topic says it won't be an instant snap. Instant in the grand scheme, but in all actuality it will likely be years.
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yeah so think about what kind of chaos that is gonna cause. For us AND the animules.
 
RatLabGuy said:
yeah so think about what kind of chaos that is gonna cause. For us AND the animules.
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The animals that rely on the magnetic fields for navigation were probably around for the last flip. They will survive the next one. We, as a species, were also around. We survived. If it causes a technological "reset", the only thing I'd really miss is watching hockey games on tv. Basic electrical things on earth shouldn't be affected.
 
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